Supertribe Cecidomyiidi

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Cecidoymiidae, predatory on Grape Phylloxera - Lestodiplosis - female

Caryomyia persicoides?? - Caryomyia persicoides

MacArthur Beach Park leaf gall on Verbesina virginica D_G181 2022 2.1 - Schizomyia verbesinae

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Bibionomorpha (Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies)

Superfamily Sciaroidea (Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges)

Family Cecidomyiidae (Gall Midges and Wood Midges)

Subfamily Cecidomyiinae (Gall Midges)

Supertribe Cecidomyiidi

Numbers

Includes Aphidoletini, Asphondyliini, Cecidomyiini, Clinodiplosini, Lestodiplosini, Mycodiplosini, and several unplaced genera.

64 Nearctic genera (1973)

Identification

Typically 12 flagellomeres. Male flagellomeres are binodal (except in most Asphondyliini) and their circumfila are looped.

Females have cylindrical flagellomeres. Most adults have a long, narrow lobe at the top of the head behind the eyes, which bears a pair of large proclinate setae. Female cerci are free, but may be closely appressed or so reduced that they appear to be fused. The aedeagus is free and appears more sclerotized than in the Lasiopteridi. Ventral papillae of the larvae are generally asetose. (1)

Key to genera in (Gagne 1973)

Remarks

This group contains gall makers, fungus feeders, and predators. (1)

Print References

Gagné, R. J. (1973). A generic synopsis of the Nearctic Cecidomyiidi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 66(4), 857-889.

Works Cited

1.	The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America Raymond J. Gagné. 1989. Cornell University Press.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 15 December, 2010 - 12:39pm
Additional contributions by behmrachel
Last updated 9 January, 2020 - 5:54pm

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